10 Soviet History Myths (feat. AlternateHistoryHub)
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It seems that people are using history as a political bludgeon again, and I’m here to ruin that for everyone. History is much more nuanced and ambiguous than the rhetoric is capable of dealing with. So today, let’s talk about these 10 myths about Soviet history worth busting, basically in chronological order.
Here's the list of myths:
1. Marx was responsible for Bolshevism
2. Communism has never been tried
3. Cold War tensions began in 1945
4. Lenin never committed purges
5. Stalin was later besmirched
6. Soviets were saved in WWII
7. The USSR wasn’t Imperialistic
8. Every General-Secretary was like Stalin
9. Soviets caused subversion in the US
10. Reagan brought down the wall
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references:
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010). https://amzn.to/33BTIMT
Donald Davis and Eugene Trany, The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002). https://amzn.to/2OpXxwg
Jochen Hellbeck, Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich (New York: Public Affairs, 2015). https://amzn.to/2H7US9w
David L Hoffmann, ed. Stalinism: The Essential Reader (New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2003). https://amzn.to/2udigeo
Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Ithaca, N.York: Cornell University Press, 2001). https://amzn.to/31xUBV8
Andrzej Paczkowski, “The Storm over the Black Book,” The Wilson Quarterly 25, iss. 2 (2001): 28-34.
A good database of primary sources and simplified histories: http://soviethistory.msu.edu
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